I have encountered the same issue and found it was reported upstream and apparently fixed in "devel" 9 days ago : https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/339 and https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/commit/922eaa7b5472ef2b5328c71fa54868bcbb97f7ac#r46945148
- Bug#982990: btrfs-progs: "btrfs device add" fail... Leonardo
- Bug#982990: Upstream fix? Jerome Andrieux

